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(The Center Square) — Gov. Janet Mills' proposal to set a new tax on prescription drugs is drawing widespread criticism from the industry, which argues that it will force family-owned pharmacies ...
Six people have been arrested after a series of drug raids in Hull, Humberside Police said. Officers executed warrants on Saxcourt, Jenthorpe, Endike Lane, Knights Court, Ellerburn Avenue and 14th ...
Eight vehicles and drug paraphernalia were also seized. Gardaí said the value of the drugs was more than €14m (£11.6m). Both men who appeared in court on Thursday were remanded in custody.
Nearly half of all 3,100 counties in America have no doctors certified to prescribe buprenorphine by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration, according to a Huffington Post analysis. Hundreds of counties have very few certified doctors.
Toby Fischer lives in South Dakota, where just 27 doctors are certified to prescribe buprenorphine -- a medication that blunts the symptoms of withdrawal from heroin and opioid painkillers. A Huffington Post analysis of government data found nearly half of all counties in America don't have such a certified physician. So every month, Fischer and his mother drive to Colorado to pick up their ...
Indeed, in 1972, a parallel provision allowing treatment for drug abusers was added to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs by the Protocol Amending the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs. Article 20 mandates drug treatment, education, and prevention measures and requires Parties to assist efforts to "gain an understanding of the problems ...
Between 2020 and 2023, the number of prescriptions for these drugs written each month for women ages 18 to 25 spiked by more than 650%, according to research published in May 2024.
In Europe as of 2007, Sweden spends the second highest percentage of GDP, after the Netherlands, on drug control. [12] The UNODC argues that when Sweden reduced spending on education and rehabilitation in the 1990s in a context of higher youth unemployment and declining GDP growth, illicit drug use rose [13] but restoring expenditure from 2002 again sharply decreased drug use as student ...